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Salamanca</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Lutheran_orthodoxy" title="Lutheran orthodoxy">Lutheran scholasticism</a> during <a href="/wiki/Lutheran_orthodoxy" title="Lutheran orthodoxy">Lutheran orthodoxy</a><br /> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ramism</a> among the <a href="/wiki/Reformed_orthodoxy" title="Reformed orthodoxy">Reformed orthodoxy</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Metaphysical_poets" title="Metaphysical poets">Metaphysical poets</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a><br /> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="font-size:11px; background:#bbbbff">Reactions within Christianity </th></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:11px"> <p>The Jesuits against <a href="/wiki/Jansenism" title="Jansenism">Jansenism</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Labadists" title="Labadists">Labadists</a> against the Jesuits<br /> <a href="/wiki/Pietism" title="Pietism">Pietism</a> against orthodox Lutherans<br /> <a href="/wiki/Nadere_Reformatie" title="Nadere Reformatie">Nadere 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massacre">St. Bartholomew's Day massacre</a> in August 1572.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to British historian <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Israel" title="Jonathan Israel">Jonathan Israel</a>: </p> <blockquote><p>"[Ramism], despite its crudity, enjoyed vast popularity in late sixteenth-century Europe, and at the outset of the seventeenth, providing as it did a method of systematizing all branches of knowledge, emphasizing the relevance of theory to practical applications [...]"<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Development">Development</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ramus was a cleric and <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">professor of philosophy</a> who gained notoriety first by his criticism of <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> and then by conversion to <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestantism</a>. He was killed in the <a href="/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre" title="St. Bartholomew&#39;s Day massacre">St Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572</a>, and a biography by Banosius (Théophile de Banos) appeared by 1576.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His status as <a href="/wiki/Huguenot" class="mw-redirect" title="Huguenot">Huguenot</a> <a href="/wiki/Martyr" title="Martyr">martyr</a> certainly had something to do with the early dissemination of his ideas.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His ideas had influence in some (but not all) parts of Protestant <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, strong in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>, and on <a href="/wiki/Puritan" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritan">Puritan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Calvinist" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvinist">Calvinist</a> <a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">theologians</a> of <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>, and in the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">American colonies</a> of <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a>, via Puritan colonists on the <i><a href="/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower">Mayflower</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>He had little effect however on mainstream <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Swiss</a> Calvinists, and was largely ignored in <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> countries.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The progress of Ramism in the half-century from roughly 1575 to 1625 was closely related to, and mediated by, <a href="/wiki/Higher_education" class="mw-redirect" title="Higher education">university education</a>: the religious factor came in through the different reception in Protestant and Catholic universities, all over Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Outside France, for example, there was the 1574 English translation by the Scot Roland MacIlmaine of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_St_Andrews" title="University of St Andrews">University of St Andrews</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-yba.llgc.org.uk_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yba.llgc.org.uk-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ramus's works and influence then appeared in the logical textbooks of the <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scottish</a> universities, and equally he had followers in England.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Audomarus Talaeus (<a href="/wiki/Omer_Talon" title="Omer Talon">Omer Talon</a>) was one early French disciple and writer on Ramism.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The work of Ramus gained early international attention, with <a href="/wiki/Roger_Ascham" title="Roger Ascham">Roger Ascham</a> corresponding about him with <a href="/wiki/Johann_Sturm" title="Johann Sturm">Johann Sturm</a>, teacher of Ramus and collaborator with Ascham; Ascham supported his stance on <a href="/w/index.php?title=Joachim_Perion&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Joachim Perion (page does not exist)">Joachim Perion</a>, one early opponent, but also expressed some reservations. Later Ascham found Ramus' lack of respect for <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, rather than extreme proponents, just unacceptable.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>As late as 1626, <a href="/wiki/Francis_Burgersdyk" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis Burgersdyk">Francis Burgersdyk</a> divides the logicians of his day into the Aristotelians, the Ramists and the Semi-Ramists.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> These last endeavoured, like <a href="/wiki/Rudolph_Goclenius" title="Rudolph Goclenius">Rudolph Goclenius</a> of <a href="/wiki/Marburg" title="Marburg">Marburg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Amandus_Polanus" title="Amandus Polanus">Amandus Polanus</a> of <a href="/wiki/Basel" title="Basel">Basel</a>, to mediate between the contending parties.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ramism was closely linked to systematic <a href="/wiki/Calvinism" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvinism">Calvinism</a>, but the hybrid <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippo-Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Philippo-Ramism (page does not exist)">Philippo-Ramism</a> (which is where the Semi-Ramists fit in) arose as a blend of Ramus with the logic of <a href="/wiki/Philipp_Melanchthon" class="mw-redirect" title="Philipp Melanchthon">Philipp Melanchthon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Opposition">Opposition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Opposition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ramism, while in fashion, met with considerable hostility. The <a href="/wiki/Jesuits" title="Jesuits">Jesuits</a> were completely opposed.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Calvinist Aristotelian <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Beza" title="Theodore Beza">Theodore Beza</a> was also a strong opponent of Ramism.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Similarly the leading Lutheran Aristotelian philosopher <a href="/wiki/Jakob_Schegk" title="Jakob Schegk">Jakob Schegk</a> resolutely rejected Ramus and opposed his visit to <a href="/wiki/T%C3%BCbingen" title="Tübingen">Tübingen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Heidelberg" title="Heidelberg">Heidelberg</a> the efforts of <a href="/wiki/Giulio_Pace" title="Giulio Pace">Giulio Pace</a> to teach Ramist dialectic to Polish private students were forbidden.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Where universities were open to Ramist teaching, there still could be dislike and negative reactions, stemming from the perceived personality of Ramus (arrogant, a natural polemicist), or of that of his supporters (young men in a hurry). There was tacit adoption of some of the techniques such as the epitome, without acceptance of the whole package of reform including junking Aristotle in favour of the new textbooks, and making Ramus an authoritative figure. <a href="/wiki/John_Rainolds" title="John Rainolds">John Rainolds</a> at Oxford was an example of an older academic torn by the issue; his follower <a href="/wiki/Richard_Hooker" title="Richard Hooker">Richard Hooker</a> was firmly against "Ramystry".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Gerhard_Johann_Vossius" class="mw-redirect" title="Gerhard Johann Vossius">Gerhard Johann Vossius</a> at <a href="/wiki/Leiden" title="Leiden">Leiden</a> wrote massive works on classical rhetoric and opposed Ramism. He defended and enriched the Aristotelian tradition for the seventeenth century.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was a representative Dutch opponent; Ramism did not take permanent hold in the universities of the Netherlands, and once <a href="/wiki/William_Ames" title="William Ames">William Ames</a> had died, it declined.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mid-century, Ramism was still under attack, from Cartesians such as <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Clauberg" title="Johannes Clauberg">Johannes Clauberg</a>, who defended Aristotle against Ramus.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Placing_Ramism">Placing Ramism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Placing Ramism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Frances_Yates" title="Frances Yates">Frances Yates</a> proposed a subtle relationship of Ramism to the legacy of <a href="/wiki/Lullism" title="Lullism">Lullism</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Art_of_memory" title="Art of memory">art of memory</a>, and Renaissance <a href="/wiki/Hermetism" class="mw-redirect" title="Hermetism">hermetism</a>. She considers that Ramism drew on Lullism, but is more superficial; was opposed to the classical art of memory; and moved in an opposite direction to the occult (reducing rather than increasing the role of images).<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He "abandoned imagery and the creative imagination".<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Mary_Carruthers" title="Mary Carruthers">Mary Carruthers</a> referred back to <a href="/wiki/Albertus_Magnus" title="Albertus Magnus">Albertus Magnus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a>: </p> <blockquote><p>"It is one of those ironies of history that Peter Ramus, who, in the sixteenth century, thought he was reacting against <a href="/wiki/Aristotelianism" title="Aristotelianism">Aristotelianism</a> by taking <i><a href="/wiki/Memoria" title="Memoria">memoria</a></i> from rhetoric and making it part of dialectic, was essentially remaking a move made 300 years before by two <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Order" title="Dominican Order">Dominican</a> professors who were attempting to reshape memorial study in conformity with Aristotle."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>An alternative to this aspect of Ramism, as belated and diminishing, is the discussion initiated by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Ong" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Ong">Walter Ong</a> of Ramus in relation to several evolutionary steps. Ong's position, on the importance of Ramus as historical figure and <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_Humanism" class="mw-redirect" title="Renaissance Humanism">humanist</a>, has been summed up as <i>the center of controversies about method (both in teaching and in scientific discovery) and about rhetoric and logic and their role in communication</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The best known of Ong's theses is Ramus the post-<a href="/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg" title="Johannes Gutenberg">Gutenberg</a> writer, in other words the calibration of the indexing and schematics involved in Ramism to the transition away from written manuscripts, and the spoken word.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Extensive charts were instead used, drawing on the resources of typography, to organise material, from left to right across a printed page, particularly in theological treatises.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The cultural impact of Ramism depended on the nexus of printing (trees regularly laid out with <a href="/wiki/Curly_bracket" class="mw-redirect" title="Curly bracket">braces</a>) and rhetoric, forceful and persuasive at least to some <a href="/wiki/Protestants" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestants">Protestants</a>; and it had partly been anticipated in cataloguing and indexing knowledge and its encyclopedism by <a href="/wiki/Conrad_Gesner" class="mw-redirect" title="Conrad Gesner">Conrad Gesner</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The term <i>Ramean tree</i> became standard in logic books, applying to the classical <a href="/wiki/Porphyrian_tree" title="Porphyrian tree">Porphyrian tree</a>, or any <a href="/wiki/Binary_tree" title="Binary tree">binary tree</a>, without clear distinction between the underlying structure and the way of displaying it; now scholars use the clearer term <i>Ramist epitome</i> to signify the structure. Ong argued that, a chart being a visual aid and logic having come down to charts, the role of voice and <a href="/wiki/Dialogue" title="Dialogue">dialogue</a> is placed squarely and rigidly in the domain of rhetoric, and in a lower position.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two other theses of Ong on Ramism are: the end of <i>copia</i> or profuseness for its own sake in writing, making Ramus an opponent of the <a href="/wiki/Erasmus" title="Erasmus">Erasmus</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Copia:_Foundations_of_the_Abundant_Style" title="Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style">Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style</a></i>; and the beginning of the later <a href="/wiki/Cartesianism" title="Cartesianism">Cartesian</a> emphasis on clarity. Ong, though, consistently argues that Ramus is thin, insubstantial as a scholar, a beneficiary of fashion supported by the new medium of printing, as well as a transitional figure.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>These ideas, from the 1950s and 1960s onwards, have been reconsidered. <a href="/wiki/Brian_Vickers_(academic)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brian Vickers (academic)">Brian Vickers</a> summed up the view a generation or so later: dismissive of Yates, he notes that bracketed tables existed in older manuscripts, and states that Ong's emphases are found unconvincing. Further, <i>methodus</i>, the Ramists' major slogan, was specific to <a href="/wiki/Figures_of_speech" class="mw-redirect" title="Figures of speech">figures of speech</a>, deriving from <a href="/wiki/Hermogenes_of_Tarsus" title="Hermogenes of Tarsus">Hermogenes of Tarsus</a> via <a href="/wiki/George_of_Trebizond" title="George of Trebizond">George of Trebizond</a>. And the particular moves used by Ramus in the reconfiguration of rhetoric were in no sense innovative by themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Jardine" title="Lisa Jardine">Lisa Jardine</a> agrees with Ong that he was not a first-rank innovator, more of a successful textbook writer adapting earlier insights centred on <a href="/wiki/Topics-logic" class="mw-redirect" title="Topics-logic">topics-logic</a>, but insists on his importance and influence in <i>humanistic logic</i>. She takes the Ramean tree to be a "voguish" pedagogic advance.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>It has been said that: </p> <blockquote><p>Puritans believed the maps proved well suited to rationalize and order the Christian view of revealed truth and the language and knowledge of the <a href="/wiki/New_learning" class="mw-redirect" title="New learning">new learning</a>, specifically the scientific and philosophical paradigms arising out of the Renaissance.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Disciplines_and_demarcations">Disciplines and demarcations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Disciplines and demarcations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Donald R. Kelley writes of the "new learning" (<i>nova doctrina</i>) or opposition in Paris to traditional <a href="/wiki/Scholasticism" title="Scholasticism">scholasticism</a> as a "trivial revolution", i.e. growing out of specialist teachers of the <i><a href="/wiki/Trivium_(education)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trivium (education)">trivium</a></i>. He argues that: </p> <blockquote><p>The aim was a fundamental change of priorities, the transformation of hierarchy of disciplines into a 'circle' of learning, an 'encyclopedia' embracing human culture in all of its richness and concreteness and organized for persuasive transmission to society as a whole. This was the rationale of the Ramist method, which accordingly emphasized mnemonics and pedagogical technique at the expense of discovery and the advancement of learning.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The need for demarcation was seen in "redundancies and overlapping categories".<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>This was taken to the lengths where it could be mocked in the <i><a href="/wiki/Port-Royal_Logic" title="Port-Royal Logic">Port-Royal Logic</a></i> (1662). There, the authors claimed that "everything that is useful to logic belongs to it", with a swipe at the "torments" the Ramists put themselves through.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The method of demarcation was applied within the <i>trivium</i>, made up of <a href="/wiki/Grammar" title="Grammar">grammar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Logic" title="Logic">logic</a> (for which Ramists usually preferred a traditional name, <i>dialectic</i>), and <a href="/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">rhetoric</a>. Logic falls, according to Ramus, into two parts: invention (treating of the notion and definition) and judgment (comprising the judgment proper, <a href="/wiki/Syllogism" title="Syllogism">syllogism</a> and method).<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In this he was influenced by <a href="/wiki/Rodolphus_Agricola" title="Rodolphus Agricola">Rodolphus Agricola</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> What Ramus does here in fact redefines rhetoric. There is a new configuration, with logic and rhetoric each having two parts: rhetoric was to cover <i>elocutio</i> (mainly figures of speech) and <i>pronuntiatio</i> (oratorical delivery). In general, Ramism liked to deal with <a href="/wiki/Binary_tree" title="Binary tree">binary trees</a> as method for organising knowledge.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rhetoric, traditionally, had had five parts, of which <i>inventio</i> (invention) was the first. Two others were <i>dispositio</i> (arrangement) and <i>memoria</i> (memory). Ramus proposed transferring those back to the realm of <i>dialectic</i> (logic); and merging them under a new heading, renaming them as <i>iudicium</i> (judgment).<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This was the final effect: as an intermediate <i>memoria</i> was left with rhetoric.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Laws_and_method">Laws and method</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Laws and method"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the end the art of memory was diminished in Ramism, displaced by an idea of "method": better mental organisation would be more methodical, and mnemonic techniques drop away. This was a step in the direction of <a href="/wiki/Descartes" class="mw-redirect" title="Descartes">Descartes</a>. The construction of disciplines, for Ramus, was subject to some laws, his <i>methodus</i>. There were three, with clear origins in Aristotle, and his <i><a href="/wiki/Posterior_Analytics" title="Posterior Analytics">Posterior Analytics</a></i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>They comprised the <i>lex veritatis</i> (French <i>du tout</i>, law of truth), <i>lex justitiae</i> (<i>par soi</i>, law of justice), and <i>lex sapientiae</i> (<i>universalité</i>, or law of wisdom). The third was in the terms of Ramus "universel premièrement", or to make the universal the first instance. The "wisdom" is therefore to start with the universal, and set up a ramifying binary tree by subdivision.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>As Ramism evolved, these characteristic binary trees, set up rigidly, were treated differently in various fields. In theology, for example, this procedure was turned on its head, since the search for God, the universal, would appear as the goal rather than the starting point.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Br%C3%A9hier" title="Émile Bréhier">Émile Bréhier</a> wrote that after Ramus, "order" as a criterion of the methodical had become commonplace; Descartes needed only to supply to method the idea of relation, exemplified by the idea of a <a href="/wiki/Mathematical_sequence" class="mw-redirect" title="Mathematical sequence">mathematical sequence</a> based on a <a href="/wiki/Functional_relationship" class="mw-redirect" title="Functional relationship">functional relationship</a> of an element to its successor.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Therefore, for Cartesians, the Ramist insights were quite easily absorbed.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>For the <a href="/wiki/Baconian_method" title="Baconian method">Baconian method</a>, on the other hand, the rigidity of Ramist distinctions was a serious criticism. <a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a>, a Cambridge graduate, was early aware of Ramism, but the near-equation of <i>dispositio</i> with method was unsatisfactory, for Baconians, because arrangement of material was seen to be inadequate for research. The <i><a href="/wiki/Novum_Organum" title="Novum Organum">Novum Organum</a></i> implied in its title a further reform of Aristotle, and its aphorism viii of Book I made this exact point.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="At_Cambridge">At Cambridge</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: At Cambridge"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A Ramist tradition took root in <a href="/wiki/Christ%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="Christ&#39;s College, Cambridge">Christ's College, Cambridge</a> in the 1570s, when <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Chaderton" title="Laurence Chaderton">Laurence Chaderton</a> became the leading Ramist, and <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Harvey" title="Gabriel Harvey">Gabriel Harvey</a> lectured on the rhetoric of Ramus.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Brian_Cummings_2007_p._255_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brian_Cummings_2007_p._255-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan" title="Marshall McLuhan">Marshall McLuhan</a>'s dissertation on <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Nashe" title="Thomas Nashe">Thomas Nashe</a> (via the <a href="/wiki/Classical_trivium" class="mw-redirect" title="Classical trivium">classical trivium</a>), who was involved in a high-profile literary quarrel with Harvey, was shaped by his interest in aligning Harvey with dialectic and the plain style (logic in the sense of Ramus), and Nashe with the full resources of Elizabethan rhetoric.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After Chaderton, there was a succession of important theologians using Ramist logic, including <a href="/wiki/William_Perkins_(Puritan)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Perkins (Puritan)">William Perkins</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/William_Ames" title="William Ames">William Ames</a> (Amesius),<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> who made Ramist dialectic integral to his approach.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/William_Temple_(scholar)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Temple (scholar)">William Temple</a> annotated a 1584 reprint of the <i>Dialectics</i> in Cambridge.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Known as an advocate of Ramism, and involved in controversy with <a href="/wiki/Everard_Digby_(scholar)" title="Everard Digby (scholar)">Everard Digby</a> of Oxford,<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> he became secretary to <a href="/wiki/Sir_Philip_Sidney" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Philip Sidney">Sir Philip Sidney</a> about a year later, in 1585.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Temple was with Sidney when he died in 1586, and wrote a Latin Ramist commentary on <i><a href="/wiki/An_Apology_for_Poetry" title="An Apology for Poetry">An Apology for Poetry</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Sidney himself is supposed to have learned Ramist theory from <a href="/wiki/John_Dee" title="John Dee">John Dee</a>, and was the dedicatee of the biography by Banosius, but was not in any strict sense a Ramist.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>This Ramist school was influential: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The Ramist system was introduced into Cambridge University by Sir William Temple, in 1580, and contributed to the growth of <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Platonism" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambridge Platonism">Cambridge Platonism</a>. It became the basis of Congregational apologetics. The Cambridge Puritans were represented by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Richardson_(Puritan)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexander Richardson (Puritan) (page does not exist)">Alexander Richardson</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Downame" title="George Downame">George Downame</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Wotton" title="Anthony Wotton">Anthony Wotton</a>, and especially by William Ames, whose writings became the favorite philosophy texts of early New England. In 1672, the same year in which Ames's edition of Ramus's Dialectics with Commentary appeared, Milton published his Institutions of the Art of Logic Based on the Method of Peter Ramus. Other Puritan divines who popularized the Ramist philosophy and <a href="/wiki/Covenant_Theology" class="mw-redirect" title="Covenant Theology">Covenant Theology</a> were William Perkins, <a href="/wiki/John_Preston_(clergyman)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Preston (clergyman)">John Preston</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hooker" title="Thomas Hooker">Thomas Hooker</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe" title="Christopher Marlowe">Christopher Marlowe</a> encountered Ramist thought as a student at Cambridge (B.A. in 1584), and made Peter Ramus a character in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Massacre_at_Paris" title="The Massacre at Paris">The Massacre at Paris</a></i>. He also cited Ramus in <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Faustus_(play)" title="Doctor Faustus (play)">Dr. Faustus</a></i>: <i>Bene disserere est finis logices</i> is a line given to Faustus, who states it is from <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>, when it is from the <i>Dialecticae</i> of Ramus.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is a short treatise by <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, who was a student at Christ's from 1625, published two years before his death, called <i>Artis Logicae Plenior Institutio ad Petri Rami Methodum concinnata</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was one of the last commentaries on Ramist logic.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Although composed in the 1640s, it was not published until 1672. Milton, whose first tutor at Christ's <a href="/wiki/William_Chappell_(bishop)" title="William Chappell (bishop)">William Chappell</a> used Ramist method,<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> can take little enough credit for the content. Most of the text proper is adapted from the 1572 edition of Ramus's logic; most of the commentary is adapted from <a href="/wiki/George_Downham" class="mw-redirect" title="George Downham">George Downham</a>'s <i>Commentarii in P. Rami Dialecticam</i> (1601)<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>—Downham, also affiliated with Christ's, was a professor of logic at Cambridge.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The biography of Ramus is a cut-down version of that of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Johann_Thomas_Freigius&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Johann Thomas Freigius (page does not exist)">Johann Thomas Freigius</a> (1543–83).<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="At_Herborn">At Herborn</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: At Herborn"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Herborn_Academy" title="Herborn Academy">Herborn Academy</a> in Germany was founded in 1584, as a Protestant university, and initially was associated with a group of Reformed theologians who developed <a href="/wiki/Covenant_theology" title="Covenant theology">covenant theology</a>. It was also a centre of Ramism, and in particular of its encyclopedic form. In turn, it was the birthplace of <a href="/wiki/Pansophism" title="Pansophism">pansophism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Alsted" class="mw-redirect" title="Heinrich Alsted">Heinrich Alsted</a> taught there, and <a href="/wiki/John_Amos_Comenius" title="John Amos Comenius">John Amos Comenius</a> studied with him.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>Ramism was built into the curriculum, with the professors required to give Ramist treatments of the <i>trivium</i>. <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Piscator" title="Johannes Piscator">Johannes Piscator</a> anticipated the foundation in writing introductory Ramist texts, <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Althusius" title="Johannes Althusius">Johannes Althusius</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lazarus_Sch%C3%B6ner&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Lazarus Schöner (page does not exist)">Lazarus Schöner</a> likewise wrote respectively on social science topics and mathematics, and Piscator later produced a Ramist theology text.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_literature">In literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: In literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Brian Vickers argues that the Ramist influence did add something to rhetoric: it concentrated more on the remaining aspect of <i>elocutio</i> or effective use of language, and emphasised the role of vernacular European languages (rather than Latin). The outcome was that rhetoric was applied in literature.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1588 <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Fraunce" title="Abraham Fraunce">Abraham Fraunce</a>, a protégé of Philip Sidney, published <i>Arcadian Rhetorike</i>, a Ramist-style rhetoric book cut down largely to a discussion of figures of speech (in prose and verse), and referring by its title to Sidney's <i><a href="/wiki/Countess_of_Pembroke%27s_Arcadia" class="mw-redirect" title="Countess of Pembroke&#39;s Arcadia">Arcadia</a></i>. It was based on a translation of Talon's <i>Rhetoricae</i>, and was a companion to <i>The Lawiers Logike</i> of 1585, an adapted translation of the <i>Dialecticae</i> of Ramus. Through it, Sidney's usage of figures was disseminated as the Ramist "Arcadian rhetoric" of standard English literary components and ornaments, before the source <i>Arcadia</i> had been published. It quickly lent itself to floridity of style. <a href="/wiki/William_Kurtz_Wimsatt,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr.">William Wimsatt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cleanth_Brooks" title="Cleanth Brooks">Cleanth Brooks</a> consider that the Ramist reform at least created a tension between the ornamented and the plain style (of preachers and scientific scholars), into the seventeenth century, and contributed to the emergence of the latter.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> With the previous work of <a href="/wiki/Dudley_Fenner" title="Dudley Fenner">Dudley Fenner</a> (1584), and the later book of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Butler_(beekeeper)" title="Charles Butler (beekeeper)">Charles Butler</a> (1598), Ramist rhetoric in Elizabethan England accepts the reduction to <i>elocutio</i> and <i>pronuntiatio</i>, puts all the emphasis on the former, and reduces its scope to the <a href="/wiki/Trope_(literature)" title="Trope (literature)">trope</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Hill" title="Geoffrey Hill">Geoffrey Hill</a> classified <a href="/wiki/Robert_Burton_(scholar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Burton (scholar)">Robert Burton</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Anatomy_of_Melancholy" class="mw-redirect" title="Anatomy of Melancholy">Anatomy of Melancholy</a></i> (1621) as a "post-Ramist <a href="/wiki/Anatomy_(genre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Anatomy (genre)">anatomy</a>". It is a work (he says against Ong) of a rooted scholar with a "method" but turning Ramism back on itself.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Samuel Taylor Coleridge combined Aristotelian logic with the Holy Trinity to create his "cinque spotted spider making its way upstream by fits &amp; starts," his logical system based on Ramist logic (thesis, antithesis, synthesis, mesothesis, exothesis).<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ramists">Ramists</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Ramists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Danish">Danish</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Danish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andreas_Krag&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Andreas Krag (page does not exist)">Andreas Krag</a><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dutch">Dutch</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Dutch"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jacobus_Arminius" title="Jacobus Arminius">Jacobus Arminius</a><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Beeckman" title="Isaac Beeckman">Isaac Beeckman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Snellius" class="mw-redirect" title="Rudolf Snellius">Rudolf Snellius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willebrord_Snellius" title="Willebrord Snellius">Willebrord Snellius</a><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justus_Lipsius" title="Justus Lipsius">Justus Lipsius</a>, wrote his <i>Politicorum sive Civilis doctrinae</i> on a strict Ramist scheme.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Scottish">Scottish</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Scottish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Roland MacIlmaine<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (University of St Andrews) published <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output 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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation cs2"><i>The Logike of the Moste Excellent Philosopher P. Ramus, Martyr</i></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Logike+of+the+Moste+Excellent+Philosopher+P.+Ramus%2C+Martyr&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARamism" class="Z3988"></span>, and a Latin edition of this work in 1574.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Martin_(philosopher)" title="James Martin (philosopher)">James Martin</a> has been classified as a Ramist he was a writer against Aristotle, but the classification is disputed.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Melville" title="Andrew Melville">Andrew Melville</a><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="English">English</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ames" title="William Ames">William Ames</a> (1576–1633)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Barton_(c._1605-1675)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="John Barton (c. 1605-1675) (page does not exist)">John Barton (c. 1605-1675)</a><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Baxter" title="Nathaniel Baxter">Nathaniel Baxter</a><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Butler_(beekeeper)" title="Charles Butler (beekeeper)">Charles Butler</a><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Downame" title="George Downame">George Downame</a><sup id="cite_ref-Toons_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Toons-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dudley_Fenner" title="Dudley Fenner">Dudley Fenner</a><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Finch_(died_1625)" title="Henry Finch (died 1625)">Henry Finch</a>, jurist, attempted in <i>Nomotexnia</i> to arrange <a href="/wiki/Common_law" title="Common law">common law</a> along Ramist lines<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Gouge" title="William Gouge">William Gouge</a><sup id="cite_ref-Hill_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Granger_(clergyman)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Granger (clergyman) (page does not exist)">Thomas Granger</a><sup id="cite_ref-Brian_Cummings_2007_p._255_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brian_Cummings_2007_p._255-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Perkins_(Puritan)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Perkins (Puritan)">William Perkins</a> (1558–1602)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Rainolds" title="John Rainolds">John Rainolds</a><sup id="cite_ref-Hill_87-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Richardson_(Puritan)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexander Richardson (Puritan) (page does not exist)">Alexander Richardson</a><sup id="cite_ref-Toons_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Toons-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Udall_(Puritan)" title="John Udall (Puritan)">John Udall</a><sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="French">French</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: French"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guy_de_Brues&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Guy de Brues (page does not exist)">Guy de Brues</a><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Gassendi" title="Pierre Gassendi">Pierre Gassendi</a> in writing on logic.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="German">German</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: German"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_Alsted" title="Johann Heinrich Alsted">Johann Heinrich Alsted</a>, "the culmination of the Ramist tradition", but also a critic of naive Ramism<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johannes_Althusius" title="Johannes Althusius">Johannes Althusius</a> organised his <i>Politics</i> in accordance with Ramist logic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bartholom%C3%A4us_Keckermann" title="Bartholomäus Keckermann">Bartholomäus Keckermann</a>, constructed a modified Ramist logic.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johannes_Piscator" title="Johannes Piscator">Johannes Piscator</a><sup id="cite_ref-Toons_84-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Toons-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caspar_Schoppe" title="Caspar Schoppe">Caspar Schoppe</a><sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hungarian">Hungarian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Hungarian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Ap%C3%A1czai_Csere" title="János Apáczai Csere">János Apáczai Csere</a>, encyclopedist.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Swedish">Swedish</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: Swedish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paulinus_Gothus" class="mw-redirect" title="Paulinus Gothus">Paulinus Gothus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Swiss">Swiss</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ramism&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: Swiss"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johannes_Wolleb" title="Johannes Wolleb">Johannes Wolleb</a><sup id="cite_ref-Toons_84-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Toons-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Welsh">Welsh</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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